Card mount or package



Jan. 8, 1929.

W. P. MILLS CARD MOUNT OR PACKAGE Filed March 14, 1927 J A i a F W1 4.5? 1 l L'Ilny'i'? b Indenior:

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Patented Jan. 8, 1929.

UNETE STATES WILLIAM PERCY MILLS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,ASSIGNOR TO MOORE PUSH-TEEN COMPANY, PENNSYLVANIA.

0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF CARD MOUNT OR PACKAGE.

Application filed Mei-ch14, 1927. Serial No. 175,132.

My invention relates to card mounts of a type desi ned to supportvendible units and to provide as a whole a vendib-le article or package.7

Specifically, my invention comprises a card mount or package which maybe of suitable material, such as light pasteboard,cardboard and thelike, sheet metal, or any similar or suitable material, from which tabsmay be struck up so as to project from the face of the card such tabsproviding supports for small articles having insertible fastening means,and in the present instance I have shown these tabs as providingsupports for screw hooks.

A further object of my invention is to provide these tabs with slits tofacilitate the insertion of a portion of the objects to be supported,and when such projecting portions are threaded the material adjacent tothe slits will be bent down upon insertion of the threaded members andby engaging the threads will serve to retain the screw hooks or anysimilarly threaded article against accidental displacement.

The integral tabs may be formed by making cuts in the card of the shape,semi-circular or otherwise, that the tabs are to have. In pressing upthese tabs from the card, apertures are provided which serve a purposehereinafter described.

These and other features of my invention are more fully describedhereinafter; reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1, is a perspective View of a card showing the manner ofpreparing the same to provide the desired tabs, and showing the latterengaged by the articles to be supported by the card.

Fig. 2, is a sectional view of the card taken on the line II-II, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3, is an end view of a portion of the card showing an articlesupported thereby, and

Fig. 4, is a sectional elevation of a portion of the card takenthroughone of the tabs and showing an article in position.

p In the drawings, 1 represents a card of suitable material, cardboard,tough pasteboard, metal, or the like,which card may be provided with aseries of cuts as indicated at 2, which may be substantiallysemi-circular in contour or outline, or of any other suitable shape. Thecuts so formed provide tabs or projections 1 which may be pressed upfrom the body of the card, and stand out sub stantially at right anglesthereto, as indicated in Figs. 2, 3 and 4. I

Simultaneously with the formation of the cuts 2, or subsequentlyifdesired, other cuts or slits are formed in that portion of the carproviding the tabs directly adjacent to or substantially in that portionof the same which will constitute the fold, indicated at a, when saidtabs are bent over; such slits being indicated at 3. In some instancesadditional slits 3 inay be formed in the'tabs at right angles to theslits 3. I

The presence of the slits3, with or: without the additional slits 3,facilitates the insertion of the articles to be supported by the tabs ofthe card. In the present instance these articles comprise so-calledscrew hooks,

consisting of a hook portion A, a screw portion a, and a so-called cup6, which serves as a finish for such screw hooks when the same are 1nuse.

It will be noted, therefore, that when the screw portion is pushedthrough'the slitted part of the tab, portions of the body of the sameadjacent to the slits 8, will be pressed to one side, as indicated at 1,Figs. 1 and 3, and will form projections adapted to be engaged by thethreadsfof the screw portions of the hooks; thereby preventingaccidental displacement or removal of the same. The position of the slit3, with respect to the surface of the card, is such that the hooks willlie in close engagement therewith, while portions of the cups 6 of saidhooks will accom modate themselves in the apertures 2 which are producedwhen the tabs are pressed up from the card.

Ir. practice, the tabs 1' are pressed up to the position indicated inthe several views of the drawing, and then the operator takes the screwhooks andafter applying the pointed end of the screw portions a, to theslitted portion, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, presses the same throughthe slit 3 of the tab until the cup portion 6 is in engagement with thetab.

The action of pushingthe screw portion through the slit presses theedges or walls of the same to one side and forms projections 1 which liein threaded engagement with the screw portion of the hook; providingample frictional engagement to prevent accidental removal from the card,yet not preventing removal when it is desired to use one ofsaid screwhooks. When the tabs 1 are pressed up from the card, apertures 2 areprovided which accommodate portions of the cups 7) of the screw hooks,as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, and these tabs are of such size relatively tothe cups, that when the hooks lie against the face of the card, thatportion of the cups exposedon the face of the card will lie within themargin of said tabs.

' The card package for screw hooks which I have devised is neat andcompact and makes.

a highly'satisfactory article of merchandise which can be readilymarketed. The hooks may be applied in the factory or other pointof'assembly and the card package as a whole shipped to distributors.Cards of a single type may be employed for hooks to different sizes; allo'fthose on one card being or" the same size, or hooks of differentsizes may beapplied to a single card. While the tabs are shown in rows,spaced substantially equidistant, any arrangement of the tabs which maybe of any suitablesize relatively to the card, is within the scope ofmyinvention.

I claim:

1. In a card package, the combination of a card having a plurality ofintegral tabs projecting from the face of the same; said, tabs having aplurality of slits some of which are at an angle to the foldedconnections of said tabs with the card adapted to receive screw membersinserted through the slits of said tabs; the-opposite sides of certainslitted por said tabs having'a plurality of slits substantiallyparalleling and at an angle to their folded connections with the cardadapted to receive screw members inserted through the intersection ofthe slits of said tabs; the opposite sides of the slitted portions lyingin threaded engagement with the screwmembers when assembled.

In witness whereof I have signed this specificati on.

WM. PERCY MILLS.

